Herder and Herder, 1969. 8vo, black cloth, blue titles, 144pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) mildly worn at edges, toning to flaps. Light spotting and fading to cloth. Contents clean, binding firm. A brief book on the practice and history of contemplative prayer in the Western monastic tradition, posthumously.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1993. 8vo, quarter purple cloth over beige cloth boards, gilt titles, 314pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (25.00) mildly rubbed to panels, toning to flaps. Contents clean, binding firm. Letters to Jacques Maritain, Evelyn Waugh, Czeslaw Milosz, James Baldwin, et al, selected and edited by.....
The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Tall 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 349pp. First edition. Unpriced dust jacket toned to outer edges. Faint toning to text block edges and endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. This hardcover facsimile anthology gathers the four mimeographic poetry and photo zines published by.....
Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1980. 8vo, indigo buckram cloth, silver titles, 270pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (12.95) mild toned to panels, small closed tear to rear panel. Contents clean, binding firm. Revised edition of Thomas Merton on Peace from 1971. A nearly fine copy. .
Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Small pamphlet (5 x 7.25) Staplebound wrappers, 32pp. Wrappers show some fading to edges, else a nearly fine copy, preserved in shrink wraps. Merton s brief essay on the praying of Psalms, with drawings contributed by the Grailville Art Center.....
Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1956. 12mo, staple bound wrappers, 32pp. Wrappers mildly faded at edges, crease to rear wrap. Merton’s brief essay on the praying of Psalms, with drawings contributed by the Grailville Art Center in Minnesota. A rather uncommon piece of Merton ephemera. From the personal library of Television frontman.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1990. 8vo, turquoise cloth over beige cloth boards, gilt and black titles, 434pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (27.95) mildly rubbed to panels, toning to flaps. Contents clean, binding firm. Collected letters from 1941-1968 on religious renewal and spiritual direction, selected and edited by Brother.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1964. 8vo, quarter red cloth over black paper boards, black titles, 328pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) moderately toned to panels, faint sunning and discoloration to lower edge. Contents clean, binding firm. A collection of essays by the Trappist monk about social issues of.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 429pp. Third printing of the first edition, with no first edition statement to copyright page, second state binding, author on the left caption to rear panel of dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket with moderate toning and rubbing to panels, small.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 8vo, red buckram cloth, gilt titles, pictorial endpapers, 362pp. Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, small chips and loss to edges. Mild spotting to front board, ex-libris bookplate to flyleaf. Contents clean, binding firm. The second autobiographical book by Merton, a......
The Liturgical Press, 1960. 8vo, white paper boards, orange endpapers, 99pp. First printing. Dust jacket toned and rubbed, tape repaired at spine. Corners of spine bumped, nick to spine crown. Brief book of counsel on spiritual direction in the Catholic tradition. A nice copy.
Thought: Fordham University Quarterly, 1968. 8vo, staple bound blue softcover pamphlet, 23pp. Wrappers toned to outer edges, creases to edges and diagonal binding crease, ex-libris bookplate to reverse of front wrap. Standalone reprint of a critical essay on the work of Camus from the Fordham University Quarterly “Thought”, Vol XLIII.....
New Directions, 1960. 8vo, beige white buckram cloth, red titles, 81pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with sunning to spine panel, minor rubbing to rear panel, wear to spine ends, toning to flaps. Discreet ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square.‘Sayings from the Desert Fathers.....
Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1978. 8vo, wheat colored cloth, black titles, photographic endpapers, 128pp. First issue, unclipped dust jacket (8.95). Mild toning and edge wear to jacket panels. A collection of jovial and parodical correspondence between the two poets, together with selected poems and calligraphic drawings by.....
Trappist, KY: Abbey of Gethsemani, 1959. 8vo, burgundy quarter cloth over decorative grey paper boards, gilt titles, 62pp. First Edition. A trace of fading to board edges, wear and tear to protective tissue guard. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An essay by Merton prefacing five collected sermons for Advent.....
Desclee Company, 1967. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 285pp. First edition. Price-clipped dust jacket heavily tattered to panels, chipping and loss to spine crown. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A theological study and interpretation of the classic English mystical treatise by a Jesuit priest and scholar. Foreword by Thomas.....